Daniel
Weinberger (class of 05) is a Ph.D. student in the Harvard University
School of Public Health. Dan is working in the lab of Marc
Lipsitch investigating Streptococcus
pneumoniae infection. We know that Dan chose Harvard
over Yale
only because he could live near Fenway
Park and catch all the Red
Sox home games.
Dan is the co-first author with Andy Goodwin on a paper work from our
lab that was published in August 2008. Click here to see the abstract.
Giovanni
DiSandro (Class of 05) is in medical school at
Eastern Virginia Medical School. He is being joined by another
student
from the 2005 lab class, Melissa San Julian.
Andrew
Goodwin (Class of 05) is in a Ph.D. program in Molecular Medicine at
Johns Hopkins University. Andy is in Bob
Casero's lab working on mechanisms of oxidative stress and the link
to cancer. Oh yeah, Andy and Heather got married in June
2008! Andy is the co-first author with Dan Weinberger on a paper
work from our
lab that was published in August 2008. Click here to see the abstract.
Da-In Kim
(Class of 05) is entering a Masters of Public Health program at Drexel
University in Philadelphia.. 
Phillip
Cunningham (Class of 2005) is now a commissioned officer (Lieutenant)
in the US Army. Phil will be using his biology and chemistry degrees to
protect us from terrorists. Phil was deployed to Iraq in the
summer of 2006 for 18 months. He has returned safe and sound!
Erik Lenarcic is a Ph.D. student in the Microbiology Department at the
University of Alabama-Birmingham. Erik's research in our lab was
crucial to our 2004 manuscript in the Journal of Clinical
Microbiology. You can download a pdf of that landmark study by clicking here!
Melissa San Julian (class of
05) is a first year medical student at
Eastern Virginia Medical School and got married August 6, 2005!
Lisa McGinnis (class of 05) is in the MSTP program (MD/Ph.D) at
Washington University
in St. Louis and plans to continue her research into
infectious
diseases. Lisa currently has two manuscripts published. The
first resulted from her NIAID summers in Dr. Steven Leppla's lab ( Manuscript
#1. ) and involves Anthrax toxin. Her second paper was a
portion of her senior honors research thesis done here in our lab
at William and Mary ( Manuscript
#2 ).
Krishna
Dondeti
(Class of 05) is in his second year of medical school at the University
of
Virginia Medical School. 
Rachel
Horak (MS 2004, defense - 5/12/04) is currently in the Ph.D. program in
the Microbiology
Department at Georgia Tech in
Atlanta. She
is pursuing her dream
to be an "Astrobiologist". I just heard a rumor that she and
Tracey are now engagd! Congrats!
Allison Markowsky
(2004) igraduated medical school from New
York University. She is doing her residency in the Metro DC area.
Shannon
McNulty (2004) published a portion of her W&M senior honor's thesis
in 2004 in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Dowload a pdf of
her study by clicking
here. At the
moment, Shannon is in a Ph.D. program in Dan Kalman's lab
in the Pathology Dept at Emory
University in Atlanta. Shannon's research involves vaccinia
virus/innate immune system interactions, a new mechanism of virus
release from cells, and the biochemical modifications that vaccinia
does to promote host cell actin polymerization.
Courtney Terry(class of 04) is in
medical school at the University of
Virginia, Charlottesville. A portion of Courtney's senior
honors thesis was recently
published in the journal Infection & Immunity. pdf. Courtney is doing
a combined MBA/MD program there!
Katie
Weller (class of 04) is in an Osteopathic Medicine program in
Charlottesville, VA.
Tina
Whitaker
successfully defended her thesis on December 8, 2003! Since
August she
has been working at the University of Maryland Environmental
Science
Center/Chesapeake Bay Lab studying infections of clam. Tina's MS
degree thesis work was published as part of two manuscripts,
one in The Auk (pdf) and the other is in
the Journal of Field Ornithology (pdf).
She is
continuing to rescue dogs. At last
count I believe she and Jason have three! Tina and Jason got
married in June 2006!!
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Beth
Mole... Class of 2003. A portion of Beth's
senior honors project was published in the Journal of Clinical
Microbiology. Click here
for a download! Beth is in a Ph.D.
program in the
Microbiology and Immunology Department at University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. She
is
woking on a type III secretion system of the plant
pathogenic bacterium Erwinia in the lab of Dr. Jeff Dangle.
Joshua Hall (left, in
submission) and Laura Terry (right, in usual domination) graduated in
2002 and 2003 respectively
without killing one another (or anyone else
that I'm aware of!). Josh completed his Ph.D. in microbiology
at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in the
lab
of Dr. Thomas H. Kawula. He defended in the summer of 2008. He is
currently a post doctoral fellow in VIrginia Miller's lab. Laura
is in the Department
of
Cell and Develpmental Biology Ph.D.
program at Vanderbilt
University in the lab of Dr.
Susan Wente.
Brent DeGeorge
graduated in 2003 and is currently in the
combined MD/Ph.D. program at Thomas
Jefferson University in
Katharine C. Madigan
graduated in 2003. A portion of her
study from our lab has recently
been
published. You can download a pdf
file here. Kate is currently in the
combined MD/Ph.D. program at Thomas
Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Last upodate I got told
me that Kate and Brent were expecting a baby in 2008!! 
Jeremy Ramsey graduated in
2003 and is currently in the Ph.D program in the Microbiology and
Immunology at Vanderbilt University. Jeremy is in
the lab of Dr. Louise Rollins-Smith. His Ph.D work involves an
amphibian immune response to a chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
This fungus has been linked to the marked decline of frog species in
several areas of the world, including the U.S. I'm sorry, but the
only picture I have of Jeremy is
has him with thumbs in ears and tongue stuck out so until he
sends a
better one, this little bug will remain as our reminder of another
colleague missed!